NEONHORIZON GUIDE

First visit

1. Tap the city pill under the header to choose a place, or allow location so the app uses where you are.
2. Search by community, province, state or country; matching places are grouped by region. Ontario Hudson and James Bay communities, inland northern Ontario, Alaska, Northern Quebec, St. Lawrence shore towns and Atlantic Canadian villages are included, and accented names also match without accents.
3. Tap any temperature to switch between °C and °F. Places in the US start in °F, everywhere else in °C.
4. The header keeps one centered brand block at every size: the enlarged NeonHorizon logo with the name beneath it, Guide on the left and Humidity on the right.
5. Scroll down: panels further down load as you reach them.

• Humidity sits at the top right of the home screen, beside the centered logo-and-name block with the Guide button on the left, on every device.
• The screensaver shows a retro-wave tagline between the sun and the horizon: “NuevaFortunaTacos presents NeonHorizon: Home of SkyMapAR”.
• The high/low indicator shows whether today's forecast high and low have been reached yet.
• Updates pause while the app is in the background to save battery, and resume when you come back.

• The label on the map tells you the time range the animation covers and the time of the current frame.
• Canadian cities get about 3 hours of past radar at 6-minute steps from Environment Canada; everywhere else, 2 hours at 10-minute steps from RainViewer.
• Past frames show how long ago they were, in days, hours and minutes (for example “1h 30m ago”); forecast frames count forward in minutes.
• The radar reloads every minute while you're looking at it.

• The compass turns so its north matches real north while you hold the phone flat.
• If the compass becomes unreliable, a figure-eight guide appears: move the phone in a figure-eight until the progress fills.

• The Marine forecast card appears automatically when your place is within 370 km (200 nautical miles) of a coastline, major lake or large inland sea, and stays hidden everywhere else.
• It reports on the nearest open water and names it with the distance in kilometres and nautical miles, for example "Lake Winnipeg · 62 km (33 nm) away".
• Waves are shown three ways: the combined sea state, wind waves and swell, each with height, direction and period where available.
• Canadian Arctic waters are covered too: Hudson Bay (Arviat, Rankin Inlet, Coral Harbour, Inukjuak), James Bay, Hudson Strait, Ungava Bay, Foxe Basin, Davis Strait and Baffin Bay (Iqaluit, Pangnirtung, Pond Inlet), the Labrador Sea, Amundsen Gulf, the Beaufort Sea (Tuktoyaktuk, Inuvik) and the Northwest Passage (Resolute, Cambridge Bay, Gjoa Haven, Kugluktuk, Grise Fiord, Eureka, Alert). The spot name includes the nearby weather station code, e.g. "Resolute Bay (CYRB)".
• A sea state condition (Douglas scale 0-9, from "Calm (glassy)" to "Phenomenal") describes the overall state of the water under the wave height.
• Wind over the water is shown in knots with gusts and a Beaufort force number and description.
• You also get water surface temperature, ocean current (oceans and seas only), visibility, and air pressure with its rising, steady or falling trend.
• The visibility tile doubles as a fog callout: it reads Fog under 1 km and Mist from 1 to 5 km, in yellow when either applies.
• A 48-hour hourly strip and a 5-day summary show how the water changes ahead; hours and days with gusts of 25 knots or more are highlighted with an exclamation mark.
• A yellow small-craft caution banner appears when gusts reach 25 knots or waves reach 2 m on lakes or 3 m at sea.
• Official marine warnings for the water appear on the card too: gale, storm, hurricane, squall, waterspout and freezing-spray warnings from Environment Canada, and small-craft advisories, gale and storm warnings from the US National Weather Service. Warnings show pink when severe, yellow otherwise; tap one to read the full text and tap again to close it.
• Ice conditions (Manitoba first): when water freezes, the card shows an ice box with the status (freezing up, partly frozen, frozen over, breaking up), coverage in tenths and percent from Environment Canada's ice model where available, estimated thickness and stage of development (new, grey, first-year ice) for lakes and rivers, the freeze-up date and freezing degree-days. Ice-covered water hides wave readings and the small-craft banner. Thin-ice and break-up warnings appear in yellow. Estimates come from recent air temperatures, so never rely on them alone for ice safety.
• Manitoba rivers are included when you are within 40 km: the Red River (Winnipeg, Selkirk, Emerson), Assiniboine (Winnipeg, Portage, Brandon), Nelson (Norway House, Gillam) and Churchill (Churchill, Leaf Rapids).
• Follows your temperature setting: with °F chosen, wave heights appear in feet everywhere, including the strips.

Covered waters

• Manitoba: Lake Winnipeg, Lake Manitoba, Lake Winnipegosis, Lake of the Woods, and Hudson Bay including the Churchill coast.
• The five Great Lakes: Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario.
• Pacific coast from Alaska through British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and California to Baja, plus the Salish Sea and the Gulf of California.
• Atlantic coast from Labrador and Newfoundland through the Maritimes, Maine and New England down to Florida and the Keys.
• Gulf of Mexico (Texas to Florida and the Yucatán), Gulf of St. Lawrence, and the Beaufort Sea along the Arctic coast.
• Eastern Canada: all 14 Nunavik villages are searchable, plus Wemindji, Eastmain and Whapmagoostui; St. Lawrence shores from Charlevoix and Kamouraska through the North Shore, Gaspé, Anticosti, the Magdalen Islands and the Lower North Shore. More coastal communities in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador have nearby Marine forecast spots. Inland northern Quebec communities are searchable for weather; no lake forecast is invented for them.
• Ontario Hudson and James Bay: Fort Severn, Peawanuck, Attawapiskat, Kashechewan, Fort Albany, Moosonee and Moose Factory have named coastal forecast spots. River-mouth communities use forecasts out in the bay, not readings at their inland village centres.
• Alaska: Southeast and Gulf of Alaska communities, Kodiak, the Alaska Peninsula and Aleutians, Bristol Bay, Norton Sound, Bering Strait, Chukchi coast and Beaufort coast have named Marine spots. Inland Ontario and Alaska communities are searchable for local weather; Marine appears only for existing waters within the usual coverage range, not an invented lake or river forecast.
• Northern lakes: Great Slave Lake and Great Bear Lake.
• Caribbean Sea: Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Leeward and Windward Islands, Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago, the ABC Islands, and the coasts of Venezuela and Colombia.
• Central America: the Gulf of Honduras and Belize Barrier Reef, the Caribbean coasts of Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama (including Colón at the canal), and the Pacific coasts from Chiapas through Guatemala, El Salvador, the Gulf of Fonseca, Nicaragua and Costa Rica to the Gulf of Panama.
• The Bahamas and Turks & Caicos, and the Yucatán Channel including Cancún, Cozumel and the Riviera Maya.
• More coastlines and oceans are being added in stages (worldwide waters next).

• The Bug report card hides itself in the cold season: once the past week's average temperature drops to -5 °C or colder, it disappears to free up space.
• It comes back once the weekly average climbs above +5 °C. In between, it stays the way it was, so it doesn't flicker on and off during spring and fall.

• The alert bar at the top appears only when something is active. Tap it to expand the details.
• An expanded alert stays open — rotation pauses — until you tap it again to close it.
• Official warnings come from the national weather service for your area.
• Storm-risk heads-ups are worked out from the forecast and are less certain than official warnings.

• Times are local to the place you've chosen.
• The Cygnus indicator finds tonight's best dark window to see the Milky Way near Sadr and Deneb, using its height, cloud cover, atmospheric visibility, and Moon interference.
• Find a dark observing site. The estimate does not measure local streetlights or other light pollution.

• The map turns with your phone's compass so it matches the sky in front of you.
• Tap a star, planet or the Moon — or its name — to see what it is. The closest object to your finger wins, and scrolling never selects anything. Tap empty sky or the same object again to clear it.
• Names: Off hides labels, Key shows the brighter stars, All fits as many as possible without overlapping.
• Names stay upright whichever way you turn the phone.
• Short names like "δ Ori" are standard catalogue names and show a little smaller and dimmer.

1. Open Sky Map AR and allow the camera, location and motion.
2. Point the phone at the sky. If a figure-eight guide appears, follow it to calibrate the compass.
3. Small hand tremors are held steady while deliberate turns and tilts follow smoothly. Names hold their placement until the view has moved enough to need a new layout.
4. Stars and other sky objects are clipped at a horizon that follows the phone’s tilt and roll. They stay behind uploaded pictures, videos and 3D objects, and looking down keeps the ground view clear.
5. The ISS is tracked live and shown when it's above the horizon.
6. Faint N, E, S and W letters sit just below the horizon, between the ground and the stars, so you always know which way you face.

Using AR on older phones

• Lite mode turns on by itself on slower phones (fewer stars, lighter drawing, 3D shown as arrows). Toggle it with ⚡ Lite.
• No camera, or camera blocked? Tap "Continue without camera" to see the sky on a dark background.
• No motion sensors? Tap "Look around by dragging" or ✋ Drag, then swipe to look around.
• No compass? Tap the yellow prompt and pick the Sun, Moon or a bright star to set your direction.

Things you may find

• Pictures and animations fixed to a real place. Some have sound that plays only when you're close.
• 3D models standing on the ground.
• Cyan beacons: a beam from the ground up into the sky so you can find a spot from far away.
• Market boards: live Bitcoin, gold, oil, USD/CAD and Yuan prices in USD.
• An arrow and distance point you toward spots that are off screen, and arrows on the ground lead to the spots in view — there is no separate radar panel.

Photos and clips

• Use the shutter for a photo or record a clip up to 60 seconds. They include the sky overlays and save to your device.

• The game is playable only during an ISS pass. A countdown shows when the next one starts.
• Turn your body to put an attacker in the centre reticle, then tap either trigger to fire. Triggers share a short cooldown.
• Gripen assist: once per round, it clears a quarter of the sky.
• The shutter captures the moment with your score on the photo.
• If an attacker reaches the ISS, the round ends.
• Pick a nickname once to appear on the global leaderboard. It can't be changed later.

1. Sign in with Google or Apple.
2. In the Notifications panel, allow notifications and choose which alerts you want.
3. Set quiet hours if you don't want alerts at night. Life-threatening warnings still come through.

Alert types

• Life-threatening warnings (take cover)
• Aurora visibility window
• Official weather warnings
• Storm risk heads-up
• Eclipse < 24h away
• ISS pass · Blackness of Day playable

• Compass or sky looks off: move away from metal and follow the figure-eight guide.
• 3D says unavailable: the app retries a few times. Close other apps and reopen Sky Map AR.
• Old icon still showing: on iPhone remove and re-add the app; on Android it updates on its own within about a day.
• No weather: check your connection; the last readings stay on screen and refresh when you're back online.
• No notifications: make sure you're signed in, notifications are allowed for the app, and quiet hours aren't on.